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After decades of prohibition in the US, at the federal level, states have begun regulating cannabis sales. Under the Obama Administration the Department of Justice has issued memo’s supporting a states right to regulate cannabis sales so long as it did not contradict federal priorities.

Currently, Twenty-eight states and the District of Columbia (DC) currently have laws legalizing cannabis (or marijuana) in some form. Some states have implemented “CBD Only” Laws.

Six states and the DC have legalized marijuana for adult use. Each state is defining its own rules on how much consumers can purchase or grow. In 2015 and 2016 Oregon and Alaskan voters approved a measures allowing adults to posses up to an ounce of marijuana in public and allowed for more and plants in the privacy of their homes. Colorado and Washington previously passed similar rules legalizing marijuana in 2012. California, Nevada and Massachusetts, and Maine passed recreational laws in 2016.

MPP has been responsible for most of the major state-level marijuana policy reforms enacted in the past decade. According to their own website: